What bothers me is how the news skews things to make a company look bad and stirs up the community against said company when sometimes unfortunate things happen that are truly accidents. Also it makes me mad that in a time of tragedy the news doesn't respect a man's family enough to shut up for a day or two instead of trying to get a scoop where there isn't one.
But from the opposite perspective.. No one would watch the news otherwise..
Nothing extraordinary happens at our basic levels of comprehension, death, disease, violence, sex, comedy..
All the big big news are in science, and the general population are not well versed enough to bother.
The News is made to entertain the "average" crowd.. their perspective is limited by their daily available options..
Viewership of CSpan vs MTV..